Israeli bombings against the Gaza Strip have killed a hundred people, including 35 children, from Tuesday afternoon until the early hours of Wednesday, according to a statement from the Palestinian Civil Defense. Israel launched an offensive on Gaza on Tuesday. Shortly before, the office of the Prime Minister of Israel, had ordered the army to carry out “immediately” on the Strip, in response to an attack “by members of Hamas” against Israeli troops near Rafah, in the south of the Palestinian enclave. After this massacre, the largest in the Palestinian territory invaded since the truce came into force on October 10, Israel has announced that it is “reapplying” the ceasefire.
Netanyahu’s office released a statement on Tuesday announcing his decision to resume the bombings after “security consultations” with his Cabinet, which the prime minister had convened hours before, after the Palestinian militia handed over remains that did not correspond to any in the enclave.
The center of the Strip has the highest number of fatalities in the last hours, with at least 42 people dead after the bombings, many of them perpetrated with drones, against houses and buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to medical sources. In one of them, Israel has destroyed the Abu Dalal family home, killing 20 people, of whom 15 were taken to the morgue and another five remain trapped in the rubble.
The army has also attacked tents housing displaced people in other areas of the center of the enclave. At least six people died after an Israeli attack on one of these tents set up in the Arad Insan camp, east of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Five other Gazans also died after a kamikaze drone exploded against a store in the municipal square of the city of Deir el Balah (central Gaza). In Gaza City, to which thousands of people have been returning after the ceasefire came into force, at least 28 people have died after these Israeli attacks, most of them against family apartments. In the south, Israel has killed 18 people, five of them after bombing a civilian vehicle northwest of the city of Khan Younis.
In this Wednesday’s statement in which the death toll in these Israeli attacks rose to a hundred, the Gaza Civil Defense ensures that its teams continue operations to rescue bodies and possible survivors under the rubble. The death toll has not yet been finalized because, according to the rescue team, the hospitals in the Strip are overcrowded with wounded people, some in critical condition, in the midst of a “serious shortage” of medical supplies, caused by Israel’s blockade of the entry of medicines, medical supplies and fuel.
The Civil Defense has defined the Israeli attacks as “horrible massacres against civilians” that are carried out “before the eyes of the mediators and the international community”, whom it has accused of “complicity and remaining silent in the face of violations.” [del alto el fuego] by Israel”, which is “a shame for humanity”.
This massacre and the subsequent Israeli announcement of the resumption of the ceasefire follows the same pattern as last Sunday’s bombings, when the Israeli army unleashed a wave of attacks in which 153 tons of explosives were used. Also then he justified the breaking of the truce with the death of two soldiers in an ambush carried out by militiamen hiding under a tunnel. 28 people died, many fewer than those who died in the last 24 hours.
Cease-fire
As happened on Monday, which raised fears for the continuity of the truce, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, stated this morning that the ceasefire in the Strip is not at risk and that Israel “has the right” to retaliate. “As I understand it, they killed an Israeli soldier,” he declared from the presidential plane, Air Force One, to the media on board in reference to an alleged attack against Israeli troops in Rafah, in the south of the Palestinian enclave.
Likewise, Trump has assured that Hamas is “a very small part” of the peace process in the Middle East and has argued that its members “are a little violent.” “They have to behave,” he stated about the group, which has reiterated its commitment to . The American president has regretted that some extremist groups are trying to sabotage the agreement, the second phase of which, according to him, has already begun, after stating in mid-October that this and the first phase of his proposal for the Gaza Strip are “a little intertwined.”
